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Patented May 9,` |899t coFFl-:E PoT ATTACHMENT.

(Application med .Tune 24, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

FORTUNE WASHINGTON, OF COLCHESTER, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SILAS CUBA AND AMBROSE CUBA, OF TENNESSEE, ILLINOIS.

CoFFE-POT ATTACHIVIENT.V

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,584, dated May 9, 1899.

Application leddune Z4, 1898. Serial Noi 684,378. (No model.)

To all whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, FORTUNE WASHINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Colchester,in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Codec-Pot Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to percolators for tea ed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional view of a tea or coffee pot havingmy improved percolator suspended therein. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the hanger. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View ofthe springclip. Fig. 4 is a sectional View of the percolatorhbody.

Corresponding parts in the several figures yare denoted by like characters of reference.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the simplest form of tea or coffee pot, having the usual spout 2 and strainer 3, formed by perforating the .body of the pot inclosed by the spout, or a strainer of reticulated material may be used.

The percolator itself comprises 'a cup or body 4, having a removable cover 5, the body and cover each being perforated or provided with reticulated material 6, The percolator thus formed is iilled with the coffee or material to be steeped and suspended in the water in the p'ot, the perforated portions 6 allowing of the Water having access to the material whichis steeped withoutleaving any sediment whatever.

To suspend the percolator, I provide a hanger formed from a single piece of wire, comprising a shank 7,wl1ich is formed into an eye S at its upper end and then coiled about the shank at the base of the eye, as at 9, then bent away from the shank, as at l0, and

formed into an offset arm 1l, preferably parallel with the shank. Thev other end of the shankis formed into a hook l2,which is adapt ed to be caught into an eye or loop 13, provided upon the side of the percolator.

The eye 8 serves to suspend the percolator 5 5 upon a nail or hook when not iu use, and the arm l1 is to suspend the device in its opera-4 tive position in the pot.

A spring=clip 14,havin g an eye l5 and springV- fingers 16,'is mounted within a pair of the 6o openings of the strainer 3, as shown, and the arm 1l of the hanger is placed in the eye of the' clip, with the transverse arm l0 resting 4 in the eye and suspending the percolator with= 4 in the pot.

The spring-clip is preferably formed, as shown, of a single piece of Wire bent intermediate its ends and forming the eye 15 and then crossed to form the springfingers 16, the extremities of which are con verged, as shown.V By this formation the ends 7o of the fingers are brought near togetherand can beweasily inserted through a pair of openings in the strainer, and after being placed in position they spread out and the clip as su'mes an inclined position, bein gheld by fric- 7 5 tional contact, as will be readily understood. The clip may be placed in any of the holes of the percolator, and by reason of its downward inclination and the offset arm 11 spacing the hanger away from the side of the pot 8o the device is suspended in sucha position as V not to interfere with the closing of the cover. It is preferable to use the spring-clip, as the device is more easily-placed in position; but should the ,clip become broken or lost the offset arm l1 may be bent out and away from the shank and inserted through one of the openings in the strainer, as will be understood, and the device thus suspended in position without the employment of the clip.

Having thus described the invention, what L claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patl. A percolator comprising a perforate body or receptacle, and a hanger therefor, the latter formed of a single piece of wire carrying the receptacle at one end, and bent intermediate its ends into a suspending-eye,`and the shorter end thereof twisted or coiled .about the shank of the hanger andbeneath the eye loo and formed into an offset arm extending toward the receptacle and approximately parallel with the said shank, substantially as maybe suspendedwithin thevessehsubstanshown and described. tially as shown and described. 2. In a percolator, the combination of :L clip In testimony that I claim the foregoing a adapted to engage the ,perforations of the my own I have hereto aiiixed my signature in 5 strainerof the vessel in which the device is the presence of two witnesses.

used and provided With an eye, andaJ hanger y 1 earryinga perforate receptacle at one end and FORTUNE WAMHNG ON' formed with a hook or arm at the other `end Witnesses: thereof, said hook being adapted to engage NELLIE CHAMP,

.'o with the eye of the clip, whereby the device PHEBE CHAMP. 

